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Bill Quigley
Black American Anti-Imperialist Fighters in the Philippine American War
16 Sep 2009
by Gill H. Boehringer On Black History Month, we are offered constant examples of Black sacrifice in the U.S. Armed Forces. But seldom do we hear of those Black soldiers that deserted to fight on the anti-imperialist side in the brutal U.S. war against Filipino independence, at the turn of the 20th…
Bill Quigley
This Far By Faith? Race Traitors, Gender Apostates and the Atheism Question
16 Sep 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson To some, the Black Church is a fountain of liberation. But what of women's liberation? “Although black women are far more likely than men to attend church more than once a week, the officialdom of black religious establishments, and certainly the political face of the black…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: In Praise of Tea Baggers
16 Sep 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Right shows far more eagerness for a fight than the hapless Left, or what remains of it. Barack Obama “smacks down” progressives like gnats, yet they continue to behave as if their mission in life is to save his presidency. Now, purported…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Van Jones Affair: An “Unfriendly Environment” for Progressives at the White House
09 Sep 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A shining progressive star of the Obama administration was unceremoniously dismissed to satisfy the McCarthyites of the GOP. But it must be noted that “Glenn Beck didn’t fire Van Jones, Obama did.” Jones' “talents are best put to use outside of this 'progressive-…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Coon Huntin’” in New York City
16 Sep 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. Nightriding white terrorists are not confined to the South. They also roam the streets of New York…
Michael Hudson
Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage, Part 2, a Guns & Butter Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson
16 Sep 2009
The product of a banking sector, explains Dr. Michael Hudson in part 2 of this interview conducted by KPFA's Bonnie Faulkner, is debt. The business plan of America's finance and insurance sectors for the last generation and more has been to manufacture debt, collect ever-rising levels…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black is Back! A Coalition to Fight the Powers that Be – Including Obama
16 Sep 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black leadership is paralyzed, white “progressives” are still drunk on ObamaL'aid, and much of the purported anti-war movement fears to confront the nation's First Black President. As historically the most reliably anti-war and pro-social justice ethnicity in the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Studies: Still Indispensable After 40 Years
16 Sep 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. Like all things consciously Black in the age of “race neutrality,” Black Studies has been targeted for…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Distracting, Dissembling, Disappointing; Barack is Back!
16 Sep 2009
Like Dick Nixon after his vacations, Obama returns to the White House “tanned, rested and ready.” Good for him. But nine months into the Obama presidency, many are asking, what about health care? What about the war? What about torture and warrantless wiretapping? What about the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Iran’s Right to Exist
22 Sep 2009
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama has the uncanny ability to achieve Bush-like ends by much smoother means. He announces a compromise on missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, then moves the weapons elsewhere on the continent. He initially tones down the rhetoric…